Pete Buttigieg鈥檚 Response To Republican Official’s Homophobic Comment Goes Viral
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Out gay US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg鈥檚 response to a homophobic comment by a Michigan Republican Party official has gone viral.聽
Earlier this month Meshawn Maddock, the Co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party, shared a Republican National Committee Research post of Buttigieg voicing support for California’s ban on new gas-powered vehicles from 2035.
Maddock tweeted, 鈥淲e鈥檙e so blessed this weak little girl moved to Michigan! Looks like he鈥檚 bringing all his California Dreaming here with him.鈥�
We鈥檙e so blessed this weak little girl moved to Michigan! Looks like he鈥檚 bringing all his California Dreaming here with him.
— meshawn maddock (@MeshawnMaddock)
Buttigieg, who has recently moved to Michigan from Indiana, responded to the homophobic comment during an interview with local WXYZ Detroit investigative reporter Ross Jones.
鈥淚鈥檒l just say that I鈥檓 raising a little girl and a little boy and I am going to raise them with better values than the chairwoman,鈥� Buttigieg quipped.
He then added, 鈥淲e need to talk about policy disagreements respectfully.鈥�
In response to a homophobic tweet by calling Pete Buttigieg a 鈥渨eak little girl,鈥� the Transportation Secretary responds:
鈥淚鈥檓 raising a little girl and little boy, and I鈥檓 going to raise them with better values than the chairwoman.鈥�
— Ross Jones (@rossjonesWXYZ)
Michigan State Representative Jack O’Malley, a Republican, called out Maddock in a post to Facebook, writing, 鈥淲hen I saw this tweet I was disgusted. I mean we are in an era of name-calling and disrespect. It needs to stop. Disagreeing is one thing but insults and slurs鈥nough.鈥�
Out Michigan State Senator Jeremy Moss, a Democrat, in an interview with Fox Detroit, responded, 鈥淭his is just very on brand for what Meshawn Maddock brings to the Michigan Republican Party.”聽
Moss continued, “It doesn’t also grow their party in any meaningful way when 17c起草社区 rights are at this incredibly supported and embraced part of where we are in our country, and so I don鈥檛 know what the long game is here, to make fun of a gay public official.鈥�
Buttigieg has been US Secretary of Transportation since 2021. In 2020, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President.
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